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Re: UTF-8 and nothing else...
- To: Documentation and Translation <doc at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: UTF-8 and nothing else...
- From: Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 10:27:15 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Bashar <big at kuwaitnet dot net> wrote:
> The thing is some webmail clients like yahoo or hotmail users switch
> the encoding to windows-1256 to write because its the one has "Arabic"
> written infront of it, while UTF-8 isn't
Agreed and this is a problem the likes of yahoo.mail, gmail, etc
need to be told about so that they give their users the option to
at a min pick which encoding they'd like to use.
> i've started to use UTF-8 recently even in web development to follow the
> standards and start to make newbies understand and use the unicode
> charset :)
Great, keep it up and lead by example :-)
Salam.
- Nadim
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